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And now TXDOT is doing a traffic corridor study for the next round of construction mayhem because our traffic downtown seems congested. The reality is that until construction slows down and folks learn the alternative routes they now have available, we won’t have a clue about real traffic patterns. Clustering a bunch of high volume attractions in a small area downtown exacerbates congestion and will likely drive the need for adjustments to traffic corridors for that overflow, and that new construction will continue to hurt small businesses and slow down traffic for folks who don’t go downtown. That is probably the biggest argument for killing or moving the arena. And since our mass transit system was slow to begin with it is no surprise that ridership is down given the added delays that no go 10 has added to many routes. The downturn in ridership is a symptom of a much bigger problem. We are adding the baubles we see in other cities without thinking through what makes sense for our population or our geography. The folks doing that poor planning will be living large elsewhere on taxpayer funded retirement by the time the folks that vote for this stuff figure it out.

I have yet to read ANY explanation of why the City, in the guise of Sun Metro, decided to duplicate existing bus services, even with a fancier bus, on the major transit routes…AND presumably knowing as they planned for this duplication that the Trolley would simply TRIPLE the transportation on a key westside route. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted. Is this just stupidity, or??? If only we had serious investigative journalism here..not to mention anti-corruption campaigns.